I’m Kristin Barendsen, otherwise known as Barendsen Editorial. I’m a book author, journalist, fine arts critic, copy editor, and compulsive proofreader. I write and edit copy for magazines, businesses, and book publishers. This site highlights the book I co-authored (Photography: New Mexico), a selected portfolio of my articles and essays, and my writing and editing services.

An excerpt: 
“My work is a never-ending search for magic,” Patrick Nagatani says. This retrospective proves that the artist has found the magic he seeks—again and again, in ever-changing forms—throughout 30 years of a remarkable career.

Nagatani’s wizardry is apparent in his creation of new worlds that are fantastic but almost plausible, one step removed from the “real” one. Big Macs and cigarette packs hang suspended in a New York subway car, sent airborne by the detonation of the Bomb—yet the visible filaments these cultural artifacts hang from signal that some puppeteer is pulling the strings. We viewers are jolted into an out-of-body perspective until our own truths are suspended.

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Above: 34th & Chambers, Polaroid Polacolor ER 20x24 Land prints, 24 x 60 in., 1985. Top right: El nadador/Nacimiento, Ilfocolor Deluxe print, 28 x 36 in., 1993. Middle right: Trinitite, Ground Zero, Ilfocolor Deluxe print, 17 x 22 in., 1988-89.